Officials set to ban street-drinking in Magaluf

BRITISH tourists are set to be banned from drinking on the streets of Magaluf this summer.

Organisers will be banned from promoting alcohol consumption or sex games

Town hall chiefs are planning the get-tough measure as part of new rules designed to halt the scandals last year which saw the party resort's reputation dragged through the mud.

Police will be given powers to confiscate soft drinks as well as booze from holidaymakers between 10pm and 8am if they can't be sure it is not alcohol.

The notorious pub crawls that led to a teenage Brit performing sex acts on 24 men at a Magaluf bar also face drastic curbs.

Under new proposals expected to be introduced from May 1, firms will only be allowed to stage one bar crawl a day between 8pm and midnight for a maximum of 20 people.

Organisers will be banned from promoting alcohol consumption or sex games in their publicity.

The common aim here is none other than reaching agreements that give maximum guarantees over the security and quality of services tourists to Magaluf receive

Town Hall spokesman

Shops will also be stopped from selling booze between midnight and 8am under the new regulations, due to be passed in mid-April after local hoteliers, night-club owners and police and taxi driver representatives have had their say.

A town hall spokesman said: "The common aim here is none other than reaching agreements that give maximum guarantees over the security and quality of services tourists to Magaluf receive."

A British teenager made headlines last summer by agreeing to perform sex acts on 24 men during a pub crawl on the brash Punta Ballena strip in return for a free drink.

A video of the incident went viral after it was posted on the Internet.

The incident led local authorities to force firms staging the organised booze sessions to apply for a licence.

The bar where the holidaymaker was filmed was later hit with a fine and 12-month closure order.

A local police chief and two of his officers were arrested last September on suspicion of heading an alleged extortion racket in Magaluf.

The arrests came after several businessmen complained police demanded money from bar owners and tipped off cooperative nightspot owners in advance of police raids.